Chapter 89 Coffee the ultimate merchandise, even with aliens

Two days later, Luke was on a ship with Ned, flying to the main world of the Trade Alliance. Ned looked very nervous. Luke himself didn't care, he had invested in several small businesses a few days ago.

They landed and were led by female guards into the courtroom, where several of Ned's species sat on metal blocks. On a raised one sat the chairwoman in a shimmering robe. She looked at them sternly. She croaked deeply.

"So what are we here for?" asked Luke.

Ned had sunk to his knees and bowed.

Luke looked at her in irritation.

A croak boomed from the chair. He looked at her, coming closer.

"Ahh I see, Ned was ratted out by Earl, guys you shouldn't believe every bullshit he says. Of course she was down on the planet."

A collective croak sounded. 

Luke shook his head and lit a cigarette.

"You guys wanted more merchandise, didn't you? How's she supposed to do that if she can't explore? "

The chairwoman gave a gurgling croak.

"Me?" he pointed at the chairwoman with the butt between his fingers.

"My job so far has been to do your dirty work, nothing more. In that respect, I need a harvesting assignment on pirate ships."

The chairwoman looked at him angrily.

"Oh come on, Ned's doing a great job and it's not like she's breaking protocol. I gave her a cloaking chip to make her look like the rest of my species. She has room in my house with even better tanks that you put on the moon. "

Collective croaking.

"Ned get up."

She shook her head. 

Luke went to her, picked her up, pressed on her collar and she shifted into human form.

"There, look." 

Releasing her, Ned hastily pressed another button and went back to his knees.

The chairwoman growled, croaking.

He looked at her, grinning. 

"Do you want these? They're not for sale because they're mine. I took old ones from my planet and modified them. Even if you go around back, you'll only get the old ones and they're worse than what you get on the planets when it's Carnival. " 

She stared at him intently. 

"But since you guys are more into trading. "

He looked to a guard who was carrying and setting down a metal crate. 

He opened it and took out a bag of chips. The chairwoman looked at him, very confused.

"Food, and Ned's eaten a lot of it and done well with it." 

He opened the bag, went to each metal block and put a few chips on it, also for the chairwoman. She picked one up, looked at it skeptically and tasted it. She ate them very quickly.

Meanwhile, he handed out sweets and dried meat. 

The chairwoman croaked and Luke looked at her. 

"Yeah. It's salty and thirsty, so it's a good sell. "

He looked to Kiste.

"Hhmm Coke I forgot, hmm." 

He grabbed the thermos flask and walked over to the chairwoman. 

"Alright, this is mine so I don't fall asleep on the flight here." 

He opened the flask, poured the rest of the coffee into the lid and handed it to her. 

She looked at him scrutinizingly.

"It's called coffee, we drink it to wake us up. From history, it's an ultimate merchandice. "

She croaked, reached for the lid and sipped, staring at him in surprise. 

He went to the box, took out a bottle of schnapps, opened it and poured it into the cup. 

The chairwoman sipped it again. Looked at the cup.

Made a loud croaking noise, then stood up and walked elegantly towards Ned. 

Luke himself put the bottle in the box, rummaged around in it, reached for a packet of sandwiches he'd made himself and bit into it. 

They stared at him.

"What, I don't have any lunch. "He bit into it again and chewed. 

The chairman croaked. 

" Nothing special, bread, meat, vegetables, condiments. " 

In that respect he wasn't lying, just that he had used leftovers from yesterday. Tomatoes and lettuce were fresh, bread too, meat was from the barbecue stall where he had bought some, mayonnaise was left over from the burger store. The chairman croaked something to Ned and she answered, the chairman looked angrily at Luke and came closer.

He ate the rest of the bread. 

"Yeah?" 

She let out a low rumble.

He wiped his mouth. 

" It was part of a deal, I get implants and in return I clean her place." 

She slammed the lid of the box shut and sat on it.

Luke looked at her, then at Ned. The chairwoman croaked. 

"Why do you want me to clean you?" 

She grinned and croaked. 

"Uh-huh, let's do it then. Open your mouth."

She opened her mouth and several rows of pointed teeth emerged. Luke sighed, why did she have to be of a higher caste, he looked to a guard.

" Scraper, cleaning agent for the mouth, bucket and water "

The guard fetched it. The chairwoman stuck out her tongue which reached up to her belly button, Nads only reached up to her neck. Luke took the scraper that was handed to him and began to scrape the tongue clean. Then took cleanser and brush scrubbed the teeth clean. Then he handed her water. She took a sip and spat into the bucket.

"And again."

She looked at him, croaked.

"You wanted the same cleaning as Ned."

She looked at Ned, then hesitantly opened her mouth. 

" The problem with you is that you're so used to the machines, or your laziness ."

He reached into her mouth and felt it.

" If your own guidelines are anything to go by, you should remove the slime bag at least once a month . "

She growled. He grinned. 

" Yes, you like to let it slide " He palpated the slime bag. The chairwoman winced, her tongue wrapped around his arm and squeezed like a constrictor.

"Ah, found it, and by the feel of it, it's been a while since you pulled it out." 

He groped for a firm grip. She made a humming sound. Luke didn't care, with a tug he pulled an arm-thick bag of goo out of her. It let out a long mewl and emptied into a puddle on the floor. 

Luke looked at the bag and dropped it into the bucket. She gasped and stared at him. 

"There was a lot of shit in there, and believe me, I recognize that as many times as I've pulled shit out of Ned. " 

He grinned.

"But I sensed something else, so open your mouth."

She tried to get up, he held her tight. 

"Now now, did you say the same cleanliness as Ned's and Ned wants to be spick and span. "

The chairwoman, looked at Ned, who averted his eyes, opened his mouth hesitantly. 

Luke reached in, felt something.

"Ah, found it!" 

He reached for it. 

The chairwoman looked at him in panic, her tongue wrapped around his arm up to his neck, digging her fingernails into the arm that held her.

Luke ignored the pain and pulled another slime bag out of her, darker and heavier than the previous one. The chairwoman's whole body shook as he pulled it out, gasping for breath. 

He looked at the bag. 

" And I thought Ned was bad, but this..." he looked at the bag he'd dropped into the buckets. 

"That's something." 

He released her tongue from his arm and handed her the coffee mug. She took a sip and keeled over. 

Ned rushed to her, quacking excitedly, Luke looked at her.

"What do you mean she can't hold her liquor very well afterwards?"

So he had to drag her to her quarters, which was a bare room with a large tub where he put her. He hadn't even put her in when she grabbed his arm with an iron grip and croaked. 

"So you're tougher than they say. "

She stared at him and croaked shrilly.

"I see, and what kind of thank you?" 

She grabbed him by the head with both hands and gave him a slimy kiss, with tongue. 

"That was filthy, and then mark it too ..."

She giggled, picked up a crystal from the edge of the pool and pressed on it. The doors closed. She swallowed the crystal. 

"Let me guess, I can only get out of here with the crystal?" 

She nodded. 

Luke cursed inwardly. 

Half an hour later, he got dressed, patted her on the head and opened the doors.

He stood up, she croaked and looked at him.

"What do you mean it was too short? Please, I'm more genetically broken than the rest of my species. With them yes, your normal times are in there yes. Not me ... " He didn't say they could do it for hours because they put their mating partner into a state of intoxication with drool. The time now had already been high performance, where he had to pull himself together extremely. Not even the empress was that bad and she was even worse when it came to sex.

She nagged, croaking. 

Luke left, the main thing was to get as far away as possible. He scored a privateer contract and had a long-range torpedo shoot him into a pirate cruiser. 

Not for the money, he wanted to shop on the black market and have an operation. 

So he hunted down the crew and killed them, threw the bodies in cold storage, turned to the Outerrim, which was shunned even by the Syndicate. A genetics fanatic whose life revolved around altering genes and was banned from empires because of it.

He had the rest of Earl and his species' inbuilt junk removed. More at the interest of the Doctor, who told him he hadn't seen so much shit and incompetence in a long time. So he removed, energy blockers, power blockers and reducers, growth stoppers, cognitive reducers, reflex slowers and more. He fitted him with a gene collector, energy reducer if he wanted to change and stay in shape, advanced adaptation modules, agility, strength, endurance, intelligence and memory enhancers, so he could also start modifying his genes. Luke invested 900 million Galactic Credits in this. 

Then he flew to the Syndicate sector, on the way there he tried out the storage mechanism on one of the bodies, which worked, so he did the same with the rest of the bodies. Changed into their form and back and tested the modification. 

He docked the ship at the Syndicate's trading planet. A planet full of sin and opportunity. He left the ship at the spaceport and was met at the pier by a group of pirates, an octopus-faced alien at the front. 

As he was in a hurry, he was still wearing the outfit from the meeting. Leather jacket, cargo pants, sneakers, T-shirt. 

"What did you do to the crew?" yelled octopus-face.

" Killed what else?"

They pointed their guns at him and attacked. 

Luke killed them quickly and realized that his reflexes really were better. He appropriated the corpses' genes, searched the bodies. Pocketed money, lit a plasma lighter, energy weapons, money, crystals. 

As he left the airlock, he was greeted by Syndicate guards aiming at him. Then, out of nowhere, an elfish woman in futuristic clothing appeared. The tyrant of the planet, for he never learned her name. He nicknamed her the giant twin melon elf. She looked at him and smiled.

"Specter! Why am I not surprised, what do you want?"

He grinned. 

" I want a trade, the ship in the dock, with all its goods, for ..."

She came closer.

" Before I make any trade, you make a deal for me."

" Good, so what?"

" I want you to get rid of a pest for me, bring me his head as proof, I don't care what you do with him."

A guard handed him a nanobag.

"Agreed."

"Good, let's go then."

He was invited in and dropped off in front of a mansion on the planet. Luke sighed and slipped into the mansion. He discovered that there was only one living creature inside, a goblin-like alien. He killed it, made it his own, put its head in a bag. Then he looked around. The villa was full of art, artifacts, valuables, money. So he put everything in the nano bag. When he had cleared out a shelf, he found a button that led to a chamber containing jars of dead aliens. He counted through them, there were almost 10,000. 

He grinned and took all the genes, threw the bodies in a pile and set them alight. He just hadn't expected the liquid to be so flammable. He barely managed to escape from the villa, which went up in flames. 

He was picked up by guards and taken to the palace of the elf, whose species is also known as space vampires. Everything was pure luxury and she sat on a golden throne. 

"Well?" 

Luke tossed her the bag.

" The bag was for..."

" Well, I've got my stolen goods in there. "

" So there " she hovered closer.

" So what do you want?" 

" Well, the cruiser, with its goods, in exchange for a colonization generator, normal, production printer, textile printer, robot body + brain. Then a complete set of blueprints of level 1 and level 2 technology and materials, of course."

She looked at him scrutinizingly.

"That's quite a lot."

"Oh, and I need a new ship, my old one is scrap."

" Hmmm " she glanced back at a display, typing something in. 

"What kind of ship?" 

Luke thought about it, he had no idea. 

" Some kind that fits stuff."

She raised an eyebrow.

" The ship is worth more Specter. "

She floated back over to him.

" That's all I need."

" Tell me Specter why? " 

" Ah, I just want to do something, can I try something? " 

" Huh?" 

He reached for her, she flinched and backed away from him.

" Interesting!" 

" Shoot him!" 

The guards opened fire and the bullets slid through him as if he were fog. Luke grinned. The elf snarled, attacked, Luke grabbed him by the throat, whereupon the guards fled.

"If you kill me, you're dead yourself, Specter," she growled.

Luke grinned, transforming into his original form, his eyes widening.

"You want me to kill you? No. But thanks to you, I have something new, that's why."

He gave her a kiss and then let her go. She looked at him, confused. 

Luke looked at her hands. 

"I want something else from you for the deal, Specter."

He looked at her.

"And what's that?"

"Sex."

"Sex? You've got a palace full of people."

He was still fixated on the chairman.

"Except they're not in my shape Specter and the ones that are, suck. So yes or no?"

Luke sighed. 

"Okay."

She smiled.

Fifteen minutes later, bitten and still broken and tired, he got dressed. She looked at him from the throne.

Luke looked at her, he had a thought, reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of chips, which he made at her feast, then an ear clip.

"What are you doing?" 

" Testing what ..."

" Testing ..." 

He pressed a button on the ear clip and the elf looked very irritated at the throne, stroking it with her hand. 

"What did you do?"

Luke grinned and lit a cigarette.

"Think of it as a gift. Now you can mingle with the people again." 

He left the room, guards packed him up and took him to the spaceport, he had to wait half a day for them to load everything onto a spaceship, he passed the time shopping. 

He thundered back, landed on the moon, marked everything and teleported it home. He got out and locked the spaceship, Earl stopped abruptly and stared at him.

"Dude! you have a luxury ride?" 

Luke looked at him.

" Yep. Won at gambling, and because I needed something new anyway. "

" You won that? Luke, this thing is the Mercedes of spaceships."

" That's right and the massage function in the armchair too. "

He left the staring Earl and went to scan himself, when everything was green he teleported back down. He dragged the crates down to the basement and set up the production printer and generators. 

First he activated the colonization generator and set it to the anchor. Then he connected the other one to the production printer. 

He left the other things in the boxes because he didn't need them yet. He went upstairs, stretched, looked around, because he had a feeling that something wasn't right. So he went to the pool, his feeling was right, the chairwoman was swimming in the pool and smiled at him when she saw him.

"Is there a reason why you're swimming in the pool? " She came to the edge.

" Yes, I'm unemployed because of you. " She had a smoky voice.

" Because of me? " 

"Yeah, you seduced me."

He lit a cigarette, squatted down and tapped his forehead with his fingers.

" How is that possible?"

She grinned.

" That's what my mother the monarch said. That I was too weak. " 

"I see," he took a drag on his cigarette.

"And why are you here then?"

"Ned took me with her. Said I might be here." 

Luke grabbed his face. 

"And with her sleeping pond, I fit in too. I didn't know you had luxury models like ours."

"We call it a whirlpool and it's for relaxing and more expensive." 

"I see."

"And since when do you speak our language?"

"Ned gave me a crash course and taught me the basics."

Luke sighed. He reached into his pocket and gave her some potato chips, she looked at him questioningly. 

" Simple, so you don't stand out."

"Uh-huh."

He looked at her.

"What look then?"

She cocked her head to one side.

"Like Ned."

Luke sighed, pulled out his cell phone, programmed it and pressed the button.

She flinched briefly and looked at his hands. He put the necklace on her.

"First button your normal form, second the human form."

"Ohh sorry!" came from Tyreen. Luke looked at her. She was wearing a swimsuit.

"Huh?"

"Well, I mean, because she's naked, you know. " 

The chairwoman looked past Luke.

"I'm Nad, Ned's big sister."

Tyreen stepped closer. Nad changed into her original form. 

"Oh, you look like Ned." 

Luke sighed. 

"She wanted to be a diplomat, well ..."

Nad looked at Luke. 

" Let's face it, so far you're the diplomat of your kind. They wouldn't buy the stuff without you."

He patted her head.

"There was another diplomat before me Nad."

She looked at him.

"Luke, do you know my mother was afraid of him?" 

Luke grinned.

" And why was she afraid of him? "

She blinked. 

"I don't know... She never said why, even though she doesn't mince words with the Empress."

Luke looked at her. 

"Be nice to her, I need to get some sleep. It's been a long flight here. "